Conversational Style

Analyzing Talk among Friends
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Paperback, Jun 2005
ISBN13: 9780195221817ISBN10: 0195221818
What can a Thanksgiving dinner conversation tell us about ourselves? Deborah Tannen revisits her hallmark in discourse analysis.


From the Kitchen to the Parlor

Language and Becoming in African American Women's Hair Care
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Paperback, Mar 2006
ISBN13: 9780195304169ISBN10: 0195304160
A lively, multi-sited linguistic ethnography of African American women's day-to-day experiences


The Social Art

Language and Its Uses
Second Edition
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Paperback, Jan 2006
ISBN13: 9780195187960ISBN10: 0195187962
A highly accessible and now thoroughly updated introduction to languages and what it is that linguists do


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